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Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Humanities in the Real World

The Humanities in the Real World Undergraduate Advocacy Fellowship program offers undergraduate students of any major the opportunity to participate in an advocacy project that enable them to apply their humanities scholarship to the urgent concerns in the world around them. Students will articulate connections between humanities majors, skills, and exciting careers.

Learn about the 2024-2025 HRW Fellows.

Learn about the 2023-2024 HRW Fellows.

What Fellows Accomplish:

Humanities Advocacy:

  • Gain experience with humanities advocacy in civic and legislative processes through the creation of an advocacy project that will be presented on Capitol Hill during Humanities Advocacy Day in March.
  • Attend public humanities events in Nashville and review them by writing public-facing articles on our blog
  • Interview Vanderbilt alumni who have built successful careers through their humanities education and write about them

Career Development:

  • Plan a Vanderbilt alumni interview panel in the fall
  • Plan an internship panel featuring Vanderbilt seniors in the spring
  • Work with the Career Center to learn how to articulate your humanist training when applying for jobs and internships
  • Build and leverage a robust network of alumni connections for future careers

What Fellows Learn:

  • Analyzing complex problems from multiple perspectives and developing plans to advocate for real-world issues through a humanist lens
  • Communicating with diverse public audiences in a range of media
  • Developing strong project management skills
  • Articulating your skills as a humanities scholar when applying to internships and jobs

Fellowship Program Format:

The HRW Fellowship consists of weekly meetings; developing an advocacy project for the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day; interviewing alumni; attending extracurricular humanities events per semester; writing and revising multimedia projects; planning a humanities networking event for Reunion weekend.

Inquiries

Please contact Dr. Elizabeth Covington.